The Serbian champion will be his second stop in the EuroLeague
Crvena Zvezda tabs sweet-shooting forward Mike Daum
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Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade continued its active start to the offseason by signing power forward Mike Daum for the coming season. Daum (2.06 meters, 28 years old) arrives from Anadolu Efes Istanbul with which he made his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut last season. He averaged 9.4 points on outstanding shooting in 11 EuroLeague games. Daum made 76% of his two-pointers, 41.3% of his threes and was perfect in 8 trips to the foul line. He also averaged 8.0 points and 4.7 rebounds in the Turkish League.
It was a short season for Daum, who came to Efes from Derthona Basket during the season. He averaged 14.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.2 assists in nine Italian League games, as well as 12.0 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.0 assists in three Basketball Champions League fixtures.
The early years of Daum’s career
Daum played four seasons of college basketball at South Dakota State University, where he was named an honorable mention All-American by AP in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He became just the 10th player to ever score 3,000 points in NCAA Division I history, a feat he achieved on February 23, 2019.
His first stop as a professional player was at Obradoiro, where he averaged 9.0 points and 3.7 rebounds in 23 Spanish League games in the 2019-20 season. He then built on those numbers during his second year at Obradoiro in 2020-21, as he posted 9.7 points 4.4 rebounds in 30 Spanish League fixtures.
In the summer of 2021, Daum opted to leave Spain and head to Italy by joining Derthona. In 36 games in his first season in Italy, 2021-22, Daum had career-high numbers of 12.2 points and 5.7 rebounds. In, 2022-23, he saw a bit of a drop, posting 10.8 points and 5.5 rebounds in 32 Italian League games.